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What happened to the locolink?

  • 02-10-2007 9:44am
    #1
    skazy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    Does anyone know if the Locolink is still running from Ballinteer? I haven't seen it or caught it for almost 2 weeks and their website is blank with no detail anymore and noone seems to know what's happened to them.


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  • #2
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    skazy wrote:
    Does anyone know if the Locolink is still running from Ballinteer? I haven't seen it or caught it for almost 2 weeks and their website is blank with no detail anymore and noone seems to know what's happened to them.

    The service has (rather inevitably) been withdrawn.

    It was (unfortunately) doomed from the start. Passenger numbers were always in single figures and at the lower end of the scale.

    Why?

    1) No link up with LUAS for tickets - this meant users had to purchase two tickets to get to the city and therefore pay double.

    2) It was competing with numerous high-frequency Dublin Bus routes for most of its route:
    Kingston-City: 16
    Ballinteer-City: 14/14A, 48A, 116
    Ballinteer-Dundrum: 14/14A, 48A, 116, 75
    Ballinteer-Stillorgan: 75 (at the same frequency as Locolink)

    It was a well intentioned operation but really was completely unnecessary, as Dublin Bus already have virtually the entire route covered by a more than adequate bus service.

    Another example of a private operator starting a more or less duplicate service (even if well intentioned) alongside a long established and high frequency Dublin Bus service. I suppose we should be grateful that they haven't cried foul (like another private operator!).

    Again it goes back to who should plan these things? DTA -v- operators?


  • #3
    Tarabuses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Tarabuses


    It is amazing that a service can just disappear without any advance notice to anyone.


  • #4
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    Tarabuses wrote:
    It is amazing that a service can just disappear without any advance notice to anyone.

    Is it really?

    Think about it. What part of any Transport Act covers the customer?

    Zip. Zilch. Zero.

    Who are they?

    They're the people that get to find out about major route and timetable changes by:

    1) Badly worded website announcements,
    2) Handwritten notices that could have been written by a five year old on stops (that two days into new schedules still have the old timetables displayed),

    and don't get to see the new timetables until 2 days before they are changed.

    And that's just from Dublin Bus!!!!

    What hope have we with private operators?


  • #5
    Slice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Slice


    If ever a reason was needed to have a little more faith in DB this is it


  • #6
    KC61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    Slice wrote:
    If ever a reason was needed to have a little more faith in DB this is it

    Slice - I'm not so sure.

    The 15C was dropped with 5 days notice to the people in Whitechurch and no right of objection, with an alternative that can take up to 15 minutes longer provided in its place!


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